Coronavirus: Maharashtra has the highest number of coronavirus cases in India
Mumbai:
Maharashtra’s chief minister, Uddhav Thackeray, and Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar met for more than 40 minutes on Saturday to outline the details for the state in the midst of the pandemic. coronavirus.
The two leaders are working to ease state foreclosure with the highest number of COVID-19 cases gradually, sources said.
New guidelines on what would be allowed to open after June 1 are expected to be released Sunday evening, sources said.
They said industries and electronic commerce, including non-essentials, can open up outside containment zones, even in Mumbai and Pune.
The center has already announced that all services and locations outside the coronavirus containment areas, with the exception of a shortlist including international flights and gymnasiums, may reopen after June 1.
A total of 2,940 new cases and 99 deaths were reported on Saturday in Maharashtra, bringing the total to 65,168 and 2,197, respectively.
Mumbai is the most affected city in the country with 38,442 cases.
The outbreak in Maharashtra comes amid a disturbing increase across the country. India has reported more than 6,000 cases of COVID-19 every day since May 21, the last two producing more than 7,000 each.
There have been more than 1.74 cases of lakh in India, according to data from the Ministry of Health on Saturday morning, with 86,422 of them still active and 4,971 deaths. The country is the ninth most affected by the coronavirus pandemic, having increased by two points in less than seven days.
